US173109A - Improvement in iron bedsteads - Google Patents

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' n. H. BROWN-80A; n. c. Woon IRON-BEDSTEAD.

Pate nted Feb; 8, 1876'.

Ila-173.109.

N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D. C

i UEITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL H. BROWN AND ARGHIBALD D. O. WOOD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRON BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of-Letters Patent N o. l73,l09, dated February 8, 1876; application filed To all whom it may concern.- are connected, without the use of separate T,

Be it known that we, DANIEL H.'BBOWN with short pieces of pipe between them.

and AROHIBALD D. 0. Wool), of Chicago, in v The short horizontal tube a, which'holds the the county of (look and State of Illinois, have side rails B is located near the end of the invented a new and useful Improvement in longer tubeb, which holds the end rail I said the Construction of Iron Bedsteads, of which tube b'joining with the vertical tube 0, which the following is a specification: I holds the post H. The upper side rails B Our said invention relates to a bedstead, of which are in the same plane with the posts H, novel form, constructed of metal tubes arare secured to themby means of the single T ranged and connected in such a manner as to U The lower side rails B are not in the same render the bedstead strong and durable, and plane with the posts and top rail, but are set at the same time very light and convenient. in a little-more than vthe thickness of the pipe,

- The peculiar construction of our bedstead for the purpose of supporting aspring or other is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, bed-bottom,E, as shown in'the drawing. The, which We will proceed to describe. i location of said lower side rails are determined Figure lis aside elevation of our improved by the position of the short tubes a of the bedstead. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on double T. line at m. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of the The upper side rails B and lower side rails same. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the 'dou- B are tied in the center by means of two 2) ble T 0 side rail B end rail I. single Ts. D D, through which the side rails The bedstead has two end frames, A A, pass, said Ts being connected byashort pipe, which constitute the head and foot. These which is provided with screw-threads at its frames are connected firmly by four side rails, ends, and fitted together in the same manner B B which are provided at their ends with as the other joints in the frame. right and left hand screw-threads, which cor- From the top of the head-frame a canopyrespond with threads tapped infour cast-iron frame may be attached and supported, as or other metal Ts, (l 0 on the end frames shown in the drawing. A A. I Having thus described our invention, what The double T, 0 of which four (4)are used we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patin the construction of our improved bedstead, ent, is- I are each cast of one solid piece of metal, be- 1. The double T 0 substantially as coning hollow or tubular,and composed ot two(2) 'structed,-=and. for the purpose herein de-.

intersections of tubes-viz., one short hori'zonscribed. v

tal tube, a, which intersects and forms a junc-. 2. The single Ts D D andshort pipe, subtion with a longer horizontal tube, b, which stantially as and for the purpose specified. intersects and forms a junction with a vertical v tube, 0 there beingvfoui-(at) open ends, which DANIEL H. BROWN. are tapped with screw-threads, in which the ARCH. D. G. WOOD. posts and lower rails are secured. This cou- Witnesses: stitutes what we term a double-T connection, S. W. RAWSON,

by means of which the rails B 1 and posts H GEORGE B. DURKEE.

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